No doubt you heard about how Manu Ginobili of the San Antonio Spurs picked a bothersome bat right out of the air during a basketball game last week, but mental_floss seizes upon the occasion to remember similar occurrences with their listicle of 10 Times Animals Have Interrupted Sporting Events. We especially enjoyed this seagull’s contribution [...]

Last week we looked at some art and crafty facial hair substitutes in the days leading up to Halloween, plotting the possibility of knitting beards for our own costume. This week we’re contemplating facial hair of a very different, decidedly more organic and unruly sort: the bee beard. Holytaco has assembled a a listicle of [...]

Today, November 3rd, is National Sandwich Day, because it’s the birthday of the man who created the food item, John Montagu (1718-1792), the Fourth Earl of Sandwich (seriously). Supposedly, Montagu invented the food during a marathon 24-hour gambling session during which he wanted to be able to eat with only one hand. The solution he [...]

As the decade comes to a close and we start seeing an explosion of listicles about the last ten years, we here at Listicles labs are predicting an overwhelmingly sad, scary and disappointing summary of the aughts. We imagine that this will be an especially inescapable verdict for all things environmental, as we’ve done a [...]

We’re not opposed to taxidermy per se, but, well, when it’s strictly for entertainment and fantasy purposes it can become a little problematic. Or maybe we’re just really creeped out by the things some imaginative taxidermists create. For instance, all the beasties in Coed Magazine’s listicle of The 28 Creepiest Taxidermy Creations are worrisome, and [...]

We rarely go beyond our Internet bubble to consider lists in non-electronic media, but Creative Review Blog recently alerted us to a helpful new book that we just couldn’t pass up: David O’Doherty, Claudia O’Doherty and Mike Ahern’s pseudo-scientific nature book parody 100 Facts About Pandas. Readers will learn all sorts of fascinating untrue non-facts [...]

A very interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times explains that our brains are often at their most active, creative and effective when trying to process bad instructions, misinformation, or trying to find patterns when no signs are present. The accompanying image (pictured) shows a blank road sign on a desert road, which got us [...]

Today is Elephant Appreciation Day, which we learned is a fairly young holiday created in 1996 by a father who was disproportionately elated by the paperweight of elephants parading that his daughter gave him as a gift. Doesn’t he know that paperweights are just about the most thoughtless and empty gifts one can give? At [...]

In addition to being Miniature Golf Day, today is the International Day of Peace – we had a hard time picking which of the two we were going to celebrate. Of course, the idea of having one day set aside for creating and celebrating international peace almost seems like an easy way to get all [...]

As a general nutritional rule, we’re always a little suspicious of foods that require a cute animated spokesperson to give them some kind of appeal they can’t achieve by just showing us the food. Gunaxin’s listicle of 25 Famous Animated Food Mascots does a good job of chronicling that very problem, and though we agree [...]